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Postdoctoral Researcher - Early Warning System of Temperature-Related Mortality in Europe

Employer
Global Academy Jobs
Location
Spain
Closing date
Jan 1, 2018

Job Details

Postdoctoral Researcher - Early Warning System of Temperature-Related Mortality in Europe
 
 

Job description

ISGlobal, is the fruit of an innovative alliance between academic, government, and philanthropic institutions to contribute to the efforts undertaken by the international community to address the challenges in global health.
 
The research aim of ISGlobal's Climate and Health Program is to address the effects that environmental conditions and climate change have on human health. The research record of scientists in the Program include several high-quality articles in high-impact journals such as Nature, Science, The Lancet, PNAS, Nature Climate Change and Nature Communications. The lines of research include extreme temperatures and precipitation, heat waves and cold spells, the impact of climate change on the spread of infectious (e.g. malaria, dengue, leishmaniosis, chikungunya, Zika) and non-infectious (Kawasaki Syndrome) diseases, the El Niño phenomenon and other environmental and climate factors.

The work associated with the position will be carried out within the Climate and Health Program (CLIMA) of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal). The position will be paid with funding from the H2020 project Blue-Action (www.blue-action.eu), and research will be carried out in parallel with the work done by other members of the group for the H2020 projects ACCLIM and PUCS, both on the same area of research.

The chosen candidate will develop climate-mortality models to generate a prototype of prediction scheme of temperature-related mortality for a very large ensemble of regions in Europe based on (i) the climate forecasting tools developed by other partners in the project and (ii) a pan-European daily dataset of regional mortality. This new dataset is the updated version of the one used for example in Ballester et al. 2016 (doi:10.1038/NCLIMATE3070).

The final aim is to evaluate how the skill in climate forecasts is transferred to the predictability of mortality risk, and to generate a tool in the area of climate impacts and human health that can increase human adaptation in the context of global warming.
 

Main duties

The main responsibilities will include the following tasks:

  • Management of the climate and mortality datasets.
  • Modeling of the relationship between climate and mortality.
  • Interaction with end-users and other similar initiatives for the co-design of the prototype.
  • Dissemination.
  • Preparation of deliverables, manuscripts and project proposals.
  • Report to the project IP, the work package leaders and the European Commission.



How to apply

Applicants must send a full CV and a short paragraph of interest (max 150 words) by email, with the subject heading PD_BLUE-ACTION. The closing date for the receipt of applications is 17:00 CEST on 31 December 2017.

Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted.

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